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Page viii
... revolt are in the way of becoming classic . Verlaine , who was once as improbable a man as Walt Whitman , is now an accomplice in the bright glory of France ; and for Retté and many another the hour will come . Here and there I have ...
... revolt are in the way of becoming classic . Verlaine , who was once as improbable a man as Walt Whitman , is now an accomplice in the bright glory of France ; and for Retté and many another the hour will come . Here and there I have ...
Page 12
... revolt against the debasing realism that made Zola and destroyed Maupassant . He began with the Parnassians , but he went far beyond them . As patiently as Gautier , he chiselled his verses ; but to each verse he gave - as it were a ...
... revolt against the debasing realism that made Zola and destroyed Maupassant . He began with the Parnassians , but he went far beyond them . As patiently as Gautier , he chiselled his verses ; but to each verse he gave - as it were a ...
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... revolt is empty . He cannot summon the dead . * * And , finally , read this sonnet : - Une dentelle s'abolit Dans le doute du Jeu suprême À n'entr'ouvrir , comme un blasphème , Qu'absence éternelle de lit. Cet unanime blanc conflit D ...
... revolt is empty . He cannot summon the dead . * * And , finally , read this sonnet : - Une dentelle s'abolit Dans le doute du Jeu suprême À n'entr'ouvrir , comme un blasphème , Qu'absence éternelle de lit. Cet unanime blanc conflit D ...
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... revolt was organized . This was in 1883 . At the end of every five years the State awards a prize of a few thousand francs to the author of the best book which has appeared during the half- decade . That year the jury decided that no ...
... revolt was organized . This was in 1883 . At the end of every five years the State awards a prize of a few thousand francs to the author of the best book which has appeared during the half- decade . That year the jury decided that no ...
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... is the stormiest soul in modern literature . The little revolts of Adolphe Retté , the poetical indignation of Émile Verhaeren , are but mint and cumin and ( 4 1 anise to the strenuous and violent rebellion of this 50.
... is the stormiest soul in modern literature . The little revolts of Adolphe Retté , the poetical indignation of Émile Verhaeren , are but mint and cumin and ( 4 1 anise to the strenuous and violent rebellion of this 50.
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